284,787
285K
Jul 16, 2002
07/02
by
Handy (Jam) Organization
movies
eye 284,787
favorite 88
comment 9
Cinderella relies on a Chevrolet to carry her home by midnight through obstacles and storms.
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Topics: Animation: Advertising, Folk tales, Automobiles: Advertising
Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome.
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Topics: World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40, Amateur films
18,418
18K
Jul 16, 2002
07/02
by
Unknown
movies
eye 18,418
favorite 37
comment 6
Early "footery fashions" film sponsored by the Walk-Over Company.
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Topics: Shoes, Fashion
44,248
44K
Jul 16, 2002
07/02
by
Handy (Jam) Organization
movies
eye 44,248
favorite 43
comment 5
Classic "capitalist realist" drama showing the manufacture of Chevrolets from foundry to finished vehicles. Though ostensibly a tribute to the "master hands" of the assembly line workers, it seems more of a paean to the designers of this impressive mass production system. Filmed in Flint, Michigan, just months before the United Auto Workers won union recognition with their famous sitdown strikes. Released the same year as two other films with which it shares similarities:...
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Topics: Automobiles: Manufacturing, Labor: 1930s, Occupations: Automotive
20,564
21K
Jul 16, 2002
07/02
by
Handy (Jam) Organization
movies
eye 20,564
favorite 24
comment 5
Classic "capitalist realist" drama showing the manufacture of Chevrolets from foundry to finished vehicles. Though ostensibly a tribute to the "master hands" of the assembly line workers, it seems more of a paean to the designers of this impressive mass production system. Filmed in Flint, Michigan, just months before the United Auto Workers won union recognition with their famous sitdown strikes. Selected for the 1999 National Film Registry of "artistically, culturally,...
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Topics: Automobiles: Manufacturing, Labor: 1930s, Occupations: Automotive
37,128
37K
Jul 16, 2002
07/02
by
Affiliated Film Producers
movies
eye 37,128
favorite 43
comment 4
Alexander Hammid's sensitive narrative of how a pre-adolescent boy is helped by a psychiatrist to come to terms with his feelings.
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Topics: Psychology, Medicine: Psychiatry, Children: Psychology
Home movie shot at the Jerome (Arkansas) Relocation Center, ca. June 1944. Jerome was the last concentration camp for Japanese Americans to open and the first to close; upon its closing, detainees were transported to nearby Rohwer and camps in other states. This Kodachrome film was shot by an unknown cameraperson and found on eBay. Includes shots of camp civilian and military staff, camp buildings, Japanese Americans incarcerated in the camp, a high-school graduation, young people reading the...
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Topics: Japanese Americans, concentration camps, incarceration, racism, Asian Americans, Arkansas, World...
13,800
14K
movies
eye 13,800
favorite 20
comment 4
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Topic: need meta
4,762
4.8K
movies
eye 4,762
favorite 7
comment 3
All girl xylophone band. 00:13:51:10 - 00:16:14:08 B/W Sound 1940s Vibraphone jazz band performs instrumental song on Greek-themed set. Male bandleader plays vibes w/ mallets as seven female musicians in sleeveless evening gowns play harmony on other vibraphones & shake maracas. Excellent: Man plays upright bass, takes wild slapping solo, bobbing his head maniacally.
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19,438
19K
Jul 16, 2002
07/02
by
U.S. Army, Signal Corps
movies
eye 19,438
favorite 13
comment 3
Government-produced historical record of major World War I battles.
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Topic: World War I
3,142
3.1K
Sep 4, 2014
09/14
by
Coronet
movies
eye 3,142
favorite 4
comment 3
Illustrates that proper management of schedules, responsibilities, privileges and finances leads to a happier home. 20:43:20 Family Life 19078 20:43:33 Establishing shot of "the Millers" packing up the car for a picnic excursion. VO about how the Millers have so much fun as a family 20:44:32 Teenagers complain to overworked mother
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Topic: family
24,321
24K
Jul 16, 2002
07/02
by
U.S. War Department
movies
eye 24,321
favorite 20
comment 3
Shows the German invasion of Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium and France, including the evacuation of the British forces at Dunkirk. From the "Why We Fight" series.
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Topics: World War II: General, World War II: Europe
348,709
349K
Jul 16, 2002
07/02
by
Handy (Jam) Organization
movies
eye 348,709
favorite 80
comment 3
Bowling made respectable and appealing to middle-class Americans through modernization and "Populuxe" design.
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Topics: Recreation, Sports: Bowling, Families
Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome.
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Topics: World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40, Amateur films
4,359
4.4K
Jun 28, 2012
06/12
by
Dynamic Films, Inc.
movies
eye 4,359
favorite 6
comment 3
Demonstrates in a positive fashion that integrated communities can and do work. Exposes the property value fallacy and makes an appeal to reason and democratic principles. An examination of what happens in a community when a Negro family stops in front of a 'FOR SALE' sign. Dramatizes the unreason and prejudice which bar a solution to the integration problem in housing.
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3,415
3.4K
Aug 20, 2012
08/12
by
Horn, George E.
movies
eye 3,415
favorite 7
comment 3
The Third Avenue El, New York City 08:09:28:16 9th Avenue elevated line in New York City? 08:11:24:21 Pan of up Empire State Building. 08:12:12:00 Low angle of elevated railway, train enters frame and comes to halt. 08:12:52:07 Shaky perspective shot from train on elevated railway passing other trains. 08:13:20:00 Two trains, one after the other, passing camera on curved portion of elevated railway. 08:15:06:01 VS great stock footage of busy New York City intersection around the turn of the...
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3,205
3.2K
movies
eye 3,205
favorite 16
comment 3
Takes place at an engagement shower for a young woman. A mother or teacher explains glamor and how it is achieved by good grooming. Static and talky, but interesting. Switches to a school assembly with all-female audience addressed by a speaker, who talks about good appearance, good grooming and looking your best. Many closeups of cleaning, washing, proper eating, food, good habits. exercise (women only) slouching girls in audience, pointed out by speaker who advocates poise and charm Bad...
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7,656
7.7K
Jul 16, 2002
07/02
by
Handy (Jam) Organization
movies
eye 7,656
favorite 12
comment 3
Chevrolet automobiles fight forest fires.
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Topic: Automobiles: Engineering
14,135
14K
Jul 16, 2002
07/02
by
Handy (Jam) Organization
movies
eye 14,135
favorite 27
comment 2
Plastics industry makes the transition from military applications to peacetime futuristic designs.
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Topics: Materials: Plastics, Design
3,233
3.2K
Oct 12, 2013
10/13
by
Official Films
movies
eye 3,233
favorite 9
comment 2
Mostly soundies from the 40's; includes one called "Gas & Gags", with excellent carhops dancing on top of cars at a drive-in!! Also includes priceless footage of women dancing in boxes. Musical about an escort service. Lyrics laden with sexual innuendos, however the film on the whole is overtly sexual. Final sequence “Playmates” creepily sexualizes childhood. 14:55:09:17 VS rich man with slicked hair and in single-breasted suit approaches a box labeled “Jane / Handle with...
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2,743
2.7K
Oct 18, 2013
10/13
by
Handy (Jam) Organization
movies
eye 2,743
favorite 10
comment 2
A "tribute to the American stylist," American Look shows families at leisure, children dressed in cowboy and cowgirl outfits watching television, a father shooting home movies of his picnicking family, Fifties-modern home interiors graced by formally dressed models, furniture (including designs by Herman Miller), kitchens and kitchen equipment, packaging (including designs by Donald Deskey), appliances, textiles, offices and office furniture, office machines, industrial machines, lawn...
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6,596
6.6K
movies
eye 6,596
favorite 9
comment 2
FOLGER'S COFFEE: 40 minutes of old Folger's commercials. Most of the Folger's ads involve a similar theme: Using white young suburban newlywed characters, Folger's explores different personality types in the similar scenario -- a domestic conflict is created because the wife's coffee does not meet the expectations of her husband, advice is provided from an outside mentor, and the domestic sphere is now happily depicted. 1) 00:01:80 Shot into the bathroom mirror -- A woman brings a cup and...
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1,958
2.0K
Aug 20, 2012
08/12
by
Handy (Jam) Organization
movies
eye 1,958
favorite 8
comment 2
Animated cartoon. Indians attack stockade, and just as all seems lost, Nicky Nome comes to the air of the hero with a new Chevrolet. Contains racist stereotypes of Native Americans.
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519
519
Jul 27, 2013
07/13
by
Aetna Casualty & Surety Company
movies
eye 519
favorite 2
comment 2
Demonstrates causes and effects of such unsafe driving practices as passing on a curve, driving after drinking, following too closely, and speeding. Lots of near misses.
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1,135
1.1K
Aug 19, 2013
08/13
by
Davis (Sid) Productions
movies
eye 1,135
favorite 2
comment 2
ILLUSTRATES THAT ACCIDENTS THAT HAPPEN AT HOME at PLAY CAN BE AVOIDED BY TAKING TIME TO THINK. GREAT SIMULATED ACCIDENTS, SOME SICK. FILMED IN Los Angeles, Calif. and SANTA MONICA.
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10,637
11K
Jul 16, 2002
07/02
by
Wolff (Raphael G.) Studios, Inc.
movies
eye 10,637
favorite 17
comment 2
This opulently produced film defines freedom as the abundance of electric power, and reviews U.S. history from an electrocentric viewpoint. With animation.
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Topics: Electricity, Patriotism, Animation: Advertising
14,735
15K
Jul 16, 2002
07/02
by
Handy (Jam) Organization
movies
eye 14,735
favorite 16
comment 2
Classic "capitalist realist" drama showing the manufacture of Chevrolets from foundry to finished vehicles. Though ostensibly a tribute to the "master hands" of the assembly line workers, it seems more of a paean to the designers of this impressive mass production system. Filmed in Flint, Michigan, just months before the United Auto Workers won union recognition with their famous sitdown strikes. Selected for the 1999 National Film Registry of "artistically, culturally,...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: Automobiles: Manufacturing, Labor: 1930s, Occupations: Automotive
30,975
31K
Jul 16, 2002
07/02
by
Handy (Jam) Organization
movies
eye 30,975
favorite 11
comment 2
Promotional newsreel containing a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories.
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Topics: Car culture: Newsreels, Automobiles: Advertising
6,901
6.9K
Apr 9, 2012
04/12
by
Medicus, Phillip
movies
eye 6,901
favorite 14
comment 2
4:00:47:29 - 04:02:39:24 color silent 1939-40 Can marked: "Electrical, Industrial, Food and State Buildings; night scenes" Electrical section, Industrial & Food Buildings intro. World's Fair flag raised & waving in wind- Trylon & Perisphere symbols. VS EXT: Administration building of Fair. TD from American flag to two men talking outdoors. (President of World's Fair Grover Whalen & unident. man) Whalen enters car. Good CU of him in car talking. 04:02:39:25 -...
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9,603
9.6K
movies
eye 9,603
favorite 5
comment 2
An adolescent girl in a small town tests her democratic heritage when she pretends to be Jewish and encounters prejudice. She explores the problem of antiSemitism by reading her diary at a PTA meeting.
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Topic: need keyword
23,428
23K
Jun 19, 2012
06/12
by
Medicus, Phillip
movies
eye 23,428
favorite 20
comment 2
03:00:46:15 - 04:03:21:00 color silent 1939-40 World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40; Amateur films Medicus Coll. Reel 1. Marked "Amusement #2: Aquacade and Nude Shows." Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome. Highlights "Little Miracle World"- midgets, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, various racy, burlesque performances. 03:00:46:15 - 03:02:26:03 color silent 1939-40 Scrolling intro title (too wide for screen). Vehicle...
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2,855
2.9K
Aug 25, 2012
08/12
by
U.S. National Archives and Records Service
movies
eye 2,855
favorite 4
comment 2
Compilation of images and sequences from the Ford Film Collection, covering United States history, culture, industry and daily life between about 1914 and 1945.
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Amateur pictures, including aerials and color shot from ground level, of the San Francisco World's Fair on Treasure Island.
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Topics: World's Fairs: San Francisco, 1939-40, Amateur films
15,260
15K
Jul 16, 2002
07/02
by
Warner Pathe News
movies
eye 15,260
favorite 18
comment 2
Newsreel stories reformatted for educational presentation, including the assassination attempt on President Harry S. Truman.
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Topics: Newsreels, Presidents
22,825
23K
movies
eye 22,825
favorite 16
comment 2
Tacoma Span bridge collapse
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2,605
2.6K
Apr 3, 2012
04/12
by
Centron Corporation
movies
eye 2,605
favorite 6
comment 2
Takes a look at modern economics as it documents the efforts of a group of young musicians who are unable to achieve financial success. Presents basic economic concepts in the form of real-life situations. Dramatizes a real economic case by actual members of a jazz-rock music band. Depicts its struggle to break into national popularity played against the real world problems of making a profit and surviving as a group.
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2,432
2.4K
Oct 12, 2013
10/13
by
Vision Associates
movies
eye 2,432
favorite 6
comment 2
Shows the growth of coffee, its care and the steps involved in processing it. A number of good shots to be logged. Skeletal Entry
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1,214
1.2K
Oct 12, 2013
10/13
by
Western Electric
movies
eye 1,214
favorite 3
comment 2
workprint; silent with some scratches and damage, but shows building of WTC towers in brief sequence, then installation of telephone plant inside center; ca. 1970 skeletal entry
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11,148
11K
movies
eye 11,148
favorite 6
comment 2
A Ford advertising film or television commercial. A suburban housewife talks to CAM in her clean kitchen about the benefits of owning two cars; man pulls out of his driveway in a 1956 Ford Victoria car; CU the Ford Victoria car driving down road, POV moving car alongside; driving a Ford Ranch Wagon car pulls out of driveway and onto street. 07:20:52:10 MS young attractive 1950s housewife on telephone; woman hangs up phone in kitchen and speaks to camera “You know, two weeks ago, I couldn’t...
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3,322
3.3K
Apr 3, 2014
04/14
by
Newsreel
movies
eye 3,322
favorite 10
comment 2
newsreel - circa 1969
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Topic: newsreel
1,415
1.4K
movies
eye 1,415
favorite 4
comment 2
home movie
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Topic: home movie
1,348
1.3K
movies
eye 1,348
favorite 6
comment 2
to come
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Topic: motion pictures
4,248
4.2K
Jul 23, 2013
07/13
by
Guggenheim (Charles) & Associates, Inc.
movies
eye 4,248
favorite 17
comment 2
05:36:40:18 Great shot 1950s St. Louis traffic police car pulls up to curb, number 72 on side of car; police officer in passenger seat looks up; enormous ornate clock on building reads 6:25; police officer drives through empty city street of St. Louis earl morning; old man, shopkeeper, watches car cop car drive by, CU broom swooping trash on sidewalk, CU VS brooms sweeping trash on to the sidewalk; CU bottle of whisky is smashed on the curb. 05:37:42:27 Homeless man with scruffy face looks up...
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7,311
7.3K
Nov 8, 2011
11/11
by
Rick Prelinger
movies
eye 7,311
favorite 24
comment 2
Compilation of historical footage showing life, labor and landscape in Detroit, Michigan (1919-1970s). First shown at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) on November 3, 2011.
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Topics: Detroit, Michigan, archival footage, landscape, cultural geography, labor, African Americans
2,659
2.7K
Oct 14, 2017
10/17
by
Unknown
movies
eye 2,659
favorite 4
comment 2
Process plates shot from moving camera cars down 8th Avenue, 5th Avenue, and 50th Street, Manhattan, New York City, ca. 1945
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Topics: Process plates, New York City, Manhattan, Moving shots, street scenes, 1940s
7,905
7.9K
movies
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favorite 7
comment 2
TV commercial with Tennessee Ernie Ford. Includes peanuts cartoon.
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1,668
1.7K
movies
eye 1,668
favorite 4
comment 2
[Home Movies: Canada, Niagara Falls, June 1949]
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Topic: home movies
1,578
1.6K
Jun 28, 2012
06/12
by
Associated Film Consultants
movies
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favorite 1
comment 2
no sound.
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3,991
4.0K
Aug 16, 2013
08/13
by
Highway Safety Films, Inc
movies
eye 3,991
favorite 11
comment 2
Emphasizes the danger of attacks on children, dramatizing typical approaches. Shows what can be done to reduce the problem by making children aware of it and ready to take precautions when accosted by strangers.
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2,815
2.8K
Sep 25, 2013
09/13
by
Coronet Instructional Films
movies
eye 2,815
favorite 9
comment 2
Are You Ready for Marriage? was produced to stem the epidemic of youthful, impetuous, and unsuccessful marriages following World War II. The Coronet catalog entry for the film reads: "A very young couple have just about decided to elope since the girl's parents object to the marriage. However, they first decide to talk over their problem with the marriage counselor at the church. During this talk they find that they really don't know too much about each other, and the counselor suggests...
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